Adventures Weekly: "Season One" recap
June 26, 2020
We have done a show every week since 27 March, so we wanted to take the opportunity to take a look back at what we are calling “Season 1” before we kick straight back into live interviews with Andrew Palfrey and Iain Murray next week from 1700 AEST Friday / 0800…
Adventures Weekly: Newport to Bermuda Race
June 19, 2020
For Adventures Weekly on 18/19 June 2020 we welcomed Jay Gowell (Race Chairman) and Somers Kempe (Race Co-Chair) to chat about the Newport Bermuda Race and their pivot to create the 2020 Online Newport Bermuda Race (which you can still enter!). More information on entering…
Adventures Weekly: The Original SINS
June 1, 2020
This week on Adventures Weekly the Sailor Girl, Nic Douglass took on the challenge of chatting with two incredible sailors and journalists, as well as being two of the founding members of the Society of International Scribes (SINS); Bob Fisher and Rob Mundle.
With 35 books…
Adventures Weekly: Tracy Edwards
May 15, 2020
What a show…! For Adventures Weekly on 15 May 2020 the Sailor Girl welcomed Tracy Edwards MBE, direct from the UK to chat about her inspiring journey with Maiden, andThe Maiden Factor.For a full sixty minutes we chatted about the early days, the Whitbread…
Adventures Weekly - 27 March 2020
March 27, 2020
Sailing News in 60 Secondsish is back – with the Bad, the Sad and the Good!
The Bad were a list of cancellations that Nic couldn’t finish, the Sad was a tribute to John Fisher, or Fish, two years to the day of his passing.
The Good, was Sailor…
Sail Paradise 2020
January 1, 2020
Day One: Bartercard Sail Paradise Regatta kicks off from Southport Yacht Club
To kick off the new decade, the 11thBartercard Sail Paradise Regatta got underway today under a sunny sky in a building nor’easterly breeze with a fleet of 33 yachts.
The Race Officer…
#KeepingYouCovered
December 21, 2019
64 videos in total, a three-hour pre-start live show talking with over 35 boats through the fleet, start commentary for ABC Grandstand, a world first with live offshore drone coverage of the middle to smaller sized yachts off the coast of Sydney, over 15 hours of live…
Smoke on the water
December 10, 2019
For the first time in the 26-year-history of the Big Boat Challenge, the race has been abandoned due to safety concerns following the settling of thick smoke from the Australian bushfires over the Sydney basin and a serious lack of visibility.
“It was really…
40th Edition of the Rolex Middle Sea Race wraps up in Malta!
October 27, 2019
Over the past few days I have managed to wrap all of the stories that we looked into at the start of the race, and in the case of the first all-female team, a story that I looked into at the conclusion of the Rolex Fastnet Race.
Black Sheep take RORC Overall Season
I…